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Weed and snail venom may replace addictive opioid painkillers
In the wake of mounting overdoses and deaths from the opioid-addiction crisis sweeping across the US, drugmakers are racing to come up with safer painkillers.
Mon Jul 03 2017
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New painkiller could replace morphine: Study
There is now a synthetic drug that appears to neutralise pain as effectively as morphine but without the side-effects.
Thu Aug 18 2016